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The Chimera Complex

The complex is an massive underground facility and a undertaking in which Dr. Charles Graves had almost full control over. Dr. Graves had full autonomy over its designing, layout and how projects were run inside it.

The Chimera Base on the surface is Chimera AFB, built to as support role to the complex. The construction and excavating of the underground facilities had started in 1972. Built next to an existing massive underground caves and an geothermal source. For excavating, Blackwood Heavy Industries were hired to preform work at the complex.

The design of the facilities, the multiple leveled, domes, etc was designed by a group named Beneke, Mixon, Pitt, and Widjaja.

Dr. Graves preformed series of experimentation and multiple branched projects are done in the complex.

Chimera is used as the name because the complex has primary objective of making successful hybridization of human-animal hybrids.

The Geothermal Power is utilized to run the power of the complex, lighting and farming. There was also deep biosphere that were carefully secured for experiments and possible food sources for livestock. Pitt had said that we would need to almost eat plants exclusively, plant-based food that has less cellulose and proposed Algae farming and harvesting. Algae was also theorized as one of the possible means in alternate energy sources.

Underground aquifer is utilized for drinking, primarily.

Housing is spartan, with higher ranked population living in has bigger spaces for desks and off-time experiments. Recycling is primary, toilet water is recycled for animal consumption and irritating farms.

Structurally, Spherical structures are built, reinforced to survive tectonic shifting, quakes, and possible bombing over the complex.

Beneke said that the majority of problem of sustaining underground base indefinitely is of mechanical nature, the need to replace worn and broken parts. Beneke designed Ventilation, climate control, ground water removal, food production, light and energy sources.

Ventilation that utilizes push/pull throughout the underground complex would need fans/mechanical that would need replacing, also the filters. The Air that filtered would enter Horticulture, and agriculture area would filter the air more before reaching another areas. Backup and redundant air circulation would be built into Laboratory and near-surface underground levels that pull air independently into it. Redundancy air circulation piping from the primary would be connected to these laboratories and near-surface underground levels would be turned on if tertiary ventilation is damaged or broken. Ventilation can filter out chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear contaminants from the surface.

(☀There is more water produced by mountain springs than the base needs, and a 1.5 million US gallons (5,700 m3) reservoir ensures that even in event of fire, there is enough water to meet the facility's needs. A reservoir of 4.5 million US gallons (17,000 m3) of water is used as a heat sink.[13] There is a "massive" reservoir for diesel fuel and a "huge" battery bank with redundant power generators.[])

Climate Control would manage the humidity, coolness, and heating in varying parts of the complex. Areas like Underground cavern systems are naturally cool and the geothermal caverns are naturally hot and humid. The complex is built in middle ground between the Cool cavern system and the hot geothermal systems.

Lighting is an necessary component of the complex, for plants, navigating and maintaining circadian rhythms of the livestock and humans. Certain plants would accept artificial lighting systems, Leafy and green plants would accept the artificial lighting. Some horticulture domes are built closer to surface in order to utilize lighting tubes, that would reflect natural sunlight into the dome. The lighting tubes would assist the production of woody plants and other crops that doesn't accept artificial lighting. The problem with light-bulbs are that they would be burnt out, broken, etc. Contingencies would be needed to design.

Energy is produced within the complex, using Geothermal, Hydro and nuclear sources. At the ground level, there are Solar and wind is utilized. Fossil Fuel and combustion source would be utilized as emergency and last resort. As they are an danger of Carbon Dioxide. Nuclear fuel will run out and the spent rods are dumped in repository far from the complex, accessable by multiple tunnels. Geothermal caverns still need steady stream of water to produce steam. ALl of these power generations need mechanical parts to be sustained.

Mixon is the underground complex lead designer, leading Beneke, Widjaja and Pitt.

Widjaja designed the leveled hierarchy of the complex, starting from the near-surface to 1km down. He designed habitable areas, with 3/4 of it dedicated to farming. These farms would grow fruits, vegetables, herbs, spices, and plants with known medical properties. Seed bank are also built. Livestock farming areas are built into massive domes, leveled to house Cows, sheep, pigs, and chicken. Cows gives us Milk and Leather in addition to meat. Sheep produces meat and wool. Chicken produces meat, feather and eggs. Fish is farmed and grown nearby the underground aquifer system. FIsh produces Omega 3 fatty acids that aid healthy brain growth in people.

Extra water sources would be harvested thorugh dirt, steepage in stone cracks.

Laboratories are built in the deepest parts near geothermal plants. Large underground warehouses are stocked with medical supplies, working tools and laboratory equipments.

Workshop level is nearer the surface, and is for repairing broken machineries, building replaements, etc.

Robots are neccessary in several points.

Supercomputer is built near the Laboratories in an hardened and reinforced spherical hollow. Supercomputer level has access to aquifer and cavern systems to cool the air within. Hot air is piped outward to the geothermal caverns.

Geothermal Energy are utilized primarily to power the complex, Nuclear is secondary and Solar/Wind powers near-surface and surface machineries.

Habitation is designed around the fish reservoirs to provide some form of aquarium for housing. Housing is ranges from spartan, near-spartan and minimalistic. Each level has common room, gym with each sequences of level having their own hospital that serves each cells. Vaccum transportation tubes acts like horizonal transportation while elevators are vertical. Walking horizonally and biking is suggested. Storage and working rooms are buitl in the each cells.

Pets are brought into the complex for psychological need; Cats, Hamster, ferrets, dogs,etc.

People would need to have some skills in the fields of: Medicine, Biology, psychology, chemistry, Computer science, mechanical. People would need to be non-solidary.

Food: Potato, etc. Emergency stockpiles of Canned, freeze-dried and MRE's. Canned fish, dried fruit, rice taht would take up 1/3 of emergency storage spaces.

Water: Emergency water storage., growing cacti, ?

Power: